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enNYC Hands Out 35 Million Condoms a Year, Then Arrests (Certain) People for Having Themhttp://bitchmagazine.org/post/confiscating-condoms-nyc-hands-out-condoms-then-arrests-certain-people-for-having-them
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<p>It makes sense for public health departments to invest in distributing free condoms. But why would a city spend a million dollars a giving out free condoms—then allow police to use those very same condoms as evidence of prostitution? This may sound ridiculous, but this has been the reality in New York City.</p>
<p>For decades, New York police has arrested people for prostitution and use any condoms the person has as part of the justification for their arrest. In a typical 2011 police report <a href="http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0712ForUpload_1.pdf" target="_blank">documented by Human Rights Watch</a>, for example, an officer arresting someone on suspicion of "loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense" described what the person was wearing, the money they had in their pocket ($1.25) and "sexual paraphernalia, namely: One condom."</p>
<p>That policy is shifting, but only a bit. Last Monday, New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton announced that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lambdalegal.org/news/ny_20140512_applauds-nyc-police-dept" target="_blank">police will no longer use possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution</a>—in particular circumstances.&nbsp;While the&nbsp;New York Police Department will no longer confiscate unused condoms to be used as evidence of prostitution, it will continue to seize condoms as evidence in cases where they suspect people of sex trafficking and promotion of prostitution.</p>
<p>New York is one of four major U.S. cities in which police and prosecutors&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0712ForUpload_1.pdf" target="_blank">can use condoms as evidence of prostitution.</a>&nbsp;The other three are Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In 1994, San Francisco prosecutors <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Condoms-No-Longer-Evidence-Against-Sex-Workers-in-SF-205671121.html" target="_blank">ceased using condoms as evidence</a> although police still use them to justify arrests. New York's infamous Stop and Frisk&nbsp;policy allows police to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious. Although the practice is purportedly color-blind, the police <a href="http://www.vera.org/pubs/special/stop-and-frisk-reports" target="_blank">overwhelmingly target young people of color</a>, including women and trans people of color.</p>
<p>“We have heard countless stories of LGBTQ and HIV affected survivors being profiled by the NYPD where condoms were used as evidence against them,” said Sharon Stapel, the executive director of the New York City <a href="http://www.avp.org/" target="_blank">Anti-Violence Project</a>, this week in a <a href="http://avp.org/storage/documents/2014.5.13_avp_ed_ncae.pdf" target="_blank">press release</a> on the police’s revised policy. &nbsp;“The only policy that will truly reduce harassment and allow people to safely carry condoms without fear of arrest is one that does not allow condoms to be confiscated by the NYPD in the first place." As it is, the policy leads some LGBT people and sex workers to be afraid to carry condoms.</p>
<p><img src="/sites/default/files/u2583/condoms.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" /></p>
<p>A 2010 study by the city's Department of Health surveyed more than 60 sex workers and found that&nbsp;<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nypd-stop-seizing-sex-work-suspects-condoms-23683931?singlePage=true">more than half had condoms confiscated by police</a>. Nearly a third said they had at times not carried condoms because they feared getting into trouble.</p>
<p>The New York Police Department makes approximately&nbsp;<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=311880704">2500 prostitution-related arrests per year</a>. The majority never go to trial. The district attorneys' offices of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Nassau County discontinued using condoms in their prosecution last year, but police still use them to justify arresting people. Prosecutors in other New York counties routinely refer to the number of condoms a person had on them in criminal court complaints accusing them of engaging in prostitution-related offenses such as “loitering for the purposes of prostitution."</p>
<p>Community health outreach workers have also noted that the policy of confiscating condoms has led to sex workers and others at risk for being stopped taking fewer condoms. A <a href="http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0712ForUpload_1.pdf" target="_blank">report by Human Right Watch</a> quotes one outreach worker's&nbsp;recollection of handing out condoms&nbsp;in Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park, a frequent gathering point for teen runaways and street people:</p>
<blockquote><p>"I was handing out condoms in Tompkins Square Park. One lady came up and took two condoms. I said ‘You can take more’ but she said ‘No, they’ll arrest me.’ She was scared to take them… she might have been 18 [years old]."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Many of the other 300 people interviewed for that Human Rights Watch report said they had been hassled by police for carrying condoms. A Brooklyn sex worker named Pam told interviewers:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><div>"The cops say, ‘What are you carrying all those condoms for? We could arrest you just for this.’ They use it to push the issue of searching me. It happens all the time around here. I may be carrying eight condoms. If you have more than three or four on you, they will take them, they will be disrespectful."</div>
</blockquote>
<p>"The revamped condom policy is a step in the right direction,"&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/nypd-condoms-_n_5310906.html">Andrea Ritchie</a>, a coordinator at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.streetwiseandsafe.org/about/">Streetwise and Safe</a> (a New York City-based group that has long opposed the department's previous policy) told reporters, but it creates a loophole big enough to drive a truck through. "We will be monitoring the NYPD carefully to see how they implement this policy," says Ritchie.&nbsp;Under the amended policy, police can (and will) continue to use the possession of condoms to justify arrest and confiscate&nbsp;condoms as “investigatory evidence.” Advocates also point out that the policy continues to put sex workers at risk, as the police could target people that they suspect of being sex workers or teen runaways under the guise of investigating pimps and traffickers. Plus, it leaves sex workers open to being punished by pimps and traffickers, who don’t want them to carry condoms because they fear the contraceptives could be used against them.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that New York City actively <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-03-06/news/nyc-s-condom-insanity/full/" target="_blank">distributed over 35 million free condoms</a>&nbsp;last year to reduce the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. Free condoms, with an NYC logo on the packet, are available not only in health clinics, but also in public places such as schools, bookstores, bars and community centers. That policy seems like it’s at odds with even the new-and-improved approach to condoms.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Related Reading: <a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/post/interview-with-melissa-gira-grant-playing-the-whore-book-review-feminist" target="_blank">Recognize that Sex Work is Work — A Conversation With Melissa Gira Grant.</a></em></p>
<p><em><em><em><em>Victoria Law is a voracious reader and freelance writer who frequently writes about gender, incarceration and resistance. She is also the author of&nbsp;</em><a href="http://resistancebehindbars.org/" target="_blank">Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women</a><em>.</em></em></em></em></p>
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http://bitchmagazine.org/post/confiscating-condoms-nyc-hands-out-condoms-then-arrests-certain-people-for-having-them#commentscondomscriminalizationpolicesex workPoliticsThu, 22 May 2014 22:30:15 +0000Victoria Law26119 at http://bitchmagazine.orgOn Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup http://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-our-radar-todays-feminist-news-roundup-draft-531
<p>Happy Friday, fellow feminist-news junkies! Here's all the wordy business on our radar this morning.</p>
<p>• If you've been following the story of Beatriz, the young Salvadorean woman whose pregnancy threatens her life (she has severe medical complications stemming from lupus, and the baby has already been deemed unviable), you'll be outraged to hear that the <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/05/30/salvadoran-supreme-court-denies-beatriz-her-right-to-life/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=reality&amp;utm_content=5+-+%0A%09httprhrealitycheckorgarticle20130530sa&amp;utm_campaign=beatriz-fundraiser&amp;source=beatriz-fundraiser">Supreme Court of El Salvador has officially denied her an abortion, handing down what amounts to a death sentence for the 22-year-old</a>. Will <a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/pope-francis-please-help-spare-beatriz-s-life">a petition to the Pope help?</a> Who knows, but it can't hurt to let His Holiness know that this is some senselessly cruel bullshit.&nbsp; [RH Reality Check]</p>
<p>• Brooklyn district attorney Charles J. Hynes has announced that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/nyregion/brooklyn-wont-use-condoms-as-evidence-against-prostitutes.html?src=twr&amp;_r=0">the borough's police force will no longer treat the possession of condoms as evidence of prostitution, a move that's a win for sex-work and public-health advocates.</a> [New York Times]</p>
<p>• In the <a href="http://io9.com/gender-swapping-superheros-creator-responds-to-right-w-510526967">new cartoon <em>SheZow</em>, a 12-year-old boy gains superpowers—and a female alter ego—when he puts on a magic ring.</a> To the folks at Breitbart News, the premise is evidence of a vast left-wing conspiracy to feminize boys. But creator Obie Scott Wade tells io9 that he just wanted to make a great animated show. [io9]</p>
<p>• White allies, antiracists, and more: <a href="http://www.spectraspeaks.com/2013/05/afrofeminism-labels-politically-correct-straight-allies-white-antiracissts-male-feminists/">A consideration of the limits—and, often, the meaninglessness—of self-applied labels among activists.</a> [Spectra Speaks]</p>
<p>• NPR's Code Switch blog <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/24/186513199/the-questions-people-get-asked-about-their-race">rounded up some of the most intersesting responses to the question, "What's the most ridiculous thing you've been asked about your race?</a>" [Code Switch]</p>
<p>• The number of women <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia">opting not to pursue careers in academic research because of institutional bias is increasing—and that has dire consequences</a> for universities that resist changing their internal structures. [Guardian Higher Education Network]</p>
<p>• In case Dolly Parton wasn't awesome enough: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/dolly-parton-cherishes-role-of-book-lady-to-thousands-of-kids/">She has donated more than 50 million books to children as part of a literacy program called Imagination Library</a>. [RawStory]</p>
<p>• Looking for an feminist internship in the Las Vegas area? <a href="http://sincitysiren.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/feminist-media-internship-in-las-vegas/">Nationally syndicated blog The Sin City Siren wants you!</a> [The Sin City Siren]</p>
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-our-radar-todays-feminist-news-roundup-draft-531#commentsabortionBeatrizcondomsRaceBitch HQFri, 31 May 2013 14:46:33 +0000Andi Zeisler22874 at http://bitchmagazine.orgOn Our Radarhttp://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-our-radar-41
<p>Bringing you fine, feminist work from around the web!</p>
<ul>
<li>Bitch <a title="Bitch profile: YA Bloggers" href="/profile/ya-bloggers">YA Blogger</a> Jessica Stites follows up on <a title="Ms.: Police Make Amends for Fining Rape Victim $500" href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/05/29/police-make-amends-for-fining-rape-victim-500/">police response to <em>Ms.</em>' petition demanding they apologize for having a woman who reported her rape fined</a>.</li>
<li>Queerty shares a video and list, <a title="Queerty: Just In Case You Forgot Why The Family Research Council Is A Hate Group..." href="http://www.queerty.com/just-in-case-you-forgot-why-the-family-research-council-is-a-hate-group-20110531/">"Just In Case You Forgot Why The Family Research Council Is A Hate Group."</a></li>
<li>Monica at TransGriot provides a history lesson about <a title="TransGriot: 90th Anniversary of 1921 Tulsa Race Riot" href="http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/05/90th-anniversary-of-1921-tulsa-race.html">the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot</a>. (Trigger warning for discussion of racism and physical violence.)</li>
<li>Bitch contributor <a title="Bitch profile: Sady Doyle" href="/profile/sadydoyle">Sady Doyle</a> reports on <a title="The Raw Story: EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds protest NYPD rape verdict in New York City" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/28/exclusive-hundreds-protest-nypd-rape-verdict-in-new-york-city/">Friday's protest</a> of <a title="Bitch: Douchebag Decree: The NYPD Rape Acquittal" href="/post/douchebag-decree-the-nypd-rape-defenders">last week's shameful "not guilty" verdict</a> at the Raw Story.</li>
<li>Shakesville's <a title="Shakesville: Two Facts" href="http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-facts_31.html">Melissa McEwan comments on the latest fail by the <em>New York Times</em></a>. (Quotable: "This column smells like barf.")</li>
<li>Tom at Original Plumbing talks about <a title="Original Plumbing: That coward Edward Albee, or what it means to be an out artist" href="http://www.originalplumbing.com/2011/05/29/thecoward-edward-albee-or-what-it-means-to-be-an-out-artist/">the Lambda Literary Awards and being an out artist</a>.</li>
<li>Check out <a title="V-Girls homepage" href="http://www.v-girls.org/">V-Girls' latest project</a>: collecting photo, video and text submissions for the <em>I Am an Emotional Creature </em>workshops they'll be leading with Eve Ensler in South Africa.</li>
<li><em>The Guardian </em>reports on <a title="The Guardian: VS Naipaul finds no woman writer his literary match -- not even Jane Austen" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/02/vs-naipaul-jane-austen-women-writers?CMP=twt_gu">author Naipaul's eyeroll-inducing insistence that no woman could write as well as him</a>.</li>
<li>Feministe's Clarisse gives us the rundown on <a title="Feministe: More on feminist science fiction" href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/05/31/more-on-feminist-science-fiction/">feminist sci-fi awards</a>!</li>
<li>Bitch contributor <a title="Bitch profile: Emily Manuel" href="/profile/emilymanuel">Emily Manuel</a> blurbs about <a title="Tiger Beatdown: It's like rain on your wedding day" href="http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/05/27/its-like-rain-on-your-wedding-day/">the "fauxtreversy" around baby Storm's biological sex being a secret</a> and the "imposing their ideology" accusation at Tiger Beatdown.</li>
<li>At AlterNet, Laura Rena Murray explains the wrongheaded practice of <a title="AlterNet: Shocking: Sex Workers Are Being Prosecuted for Carrying Condoms" href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/151132/shocking:_sex_workers_are_being_prosecuted_for_carrying_condoms?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=alternet">police pointing to condom-carrying as evidence of being a sex worker</a>... and the oft-dismissed bill that would prevent it.</li>
<li><em>Mother Jones </em>reports on <a title="Mother Jones: Bribery! Corruption! The Scandal That Could Bring Down a Presidency" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/bribery-corruption-scandal-could-bring-down-presidency">the FIFA soccer scandal</a>.</li>
<li>WTF? Feministing discusses <a title="Feministing: Cadbury runs ad comparing Naomi Campbell to chocolate bar" href="http://feministing.com/2011/05/31/cadbury-runs-ad-comparing-naomi-campbell-to-chocolate-bar/">Cadbury's new ad, which compares Naomi Campbell and a chocolate bar</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Any reactions to the pieces we've shared? What else have you been reading?</p>
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-our-radar-41#commentschocolatecondomsEve EnslerFacebookgenderhomophobiapolice brutalityprivilegeQUILTBAGracismrapescience fictionsoccerwtf?Bitch HQFri, 03 Jun 2011 21:27:16 +0000Deb Jannerson10522 at http://bitchmagazine.orgThe Lady Is a Tramp: Safer-Sex Kit Survey Says...http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-safer-sex-survey-says
<p><img src="/sites/default/files/u3790/Safer_sex_kits.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="Safer_sex_kits.jpg" /><br />
Curious to see where people were at regarding safer-sex stuff nowadays, I posed a simple question to my Twitter followers/followees:</p>
<p><em>If you could bundle the perfect safer-sex kit, what would you put in it? No judgments, just doing some research...</em></p>
<p>Here are the results of my utterly unscientific and unabashedly unrepresentative (sample group too small) survey about what people want in their safer-sex kits.</p>
<p>Most responders would pack in their kits (in descending order): </p>
<blockquote><p>
--condoms (various sizes/textures/flavors)<br />
--lube (either H2O- or glycerin-based),<br />
--a sex toy<br />
--dental dams<br />
--Plan B<br />
--disposable towelettes (aka wipes)<br />
--money<br />
--finger cots<br />
--soap<br />
--underwear (edible &amp; non)<br />
--handcuffs<br />
--lip gloss or lip balm<br />
--sex-toy cleaner
</p></blockquote>
<p>Some other fascinating answers: erotica, honey, blindfolds, map, perfume, lingerie, feathers, and lollipops. My pal <a href="http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/what_s_in_your_safe_sex_bag">Liza Sabater even wrote a response post to my question</a>. </p>
<p>What fascinated me the most, though, was <em>who</em> responded: I received nine responses from self-identified women and three from self-identified men. (No one who identified as gender-nonconforming responded.) The women answered my question on Twitter, where I originally posted the question. The men responded after I approached them in real life, either face-to-face or on phone. But it's not as if I don't have male or gender-nonconforming followers on Twitter....</p>
<p>Still, 3:1. </p>
<p>The <a href=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html">Guttmacher Institute </a> says this about condom use:</p>
<blockquote><p>
--18% of U.S. women who use contraception rely on their partner's condom use.<br />
--7.3 million women use barrier contraceptives, such as the male condom. Condom use is especially common among teens, 20–24-year-olds, childless women and never-married women.<br />
--45% of teenage women who practice contraception use condoms, either alone (19%) or with another method (25%).
</p></blockquote>
<p>Considering these stats, people still use—and like to use—condoms. The responses to my small survey seem to say that women are, at least, vocal in wanting them, whether or not it's the only prophylactic they want to use. And it's not as if the guys I asked didn't want rubbers in their kits—it was the first answer all three of them gave—but I just find the relative silence by the men online baffling. </p>
<p>Hmmm…. </p>
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-safer-sex-survey-says#commentscondomsmensafer sexsexThe Lady Is A TrampwomenSex and SexualityThu, 20 May 2010 17:29:32 +0000Andrea Plaid3288 at http://bitchmagazine.orgThe Lady is a Tramp: The Magnum Campaign and Ye Olde Black Male Penis Mythhttp://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-lady-is-a-tramp-the-trojan-magnum-campaign-and-the-enduring-black-male-penis-myth
<p><img src="/sites/default/files/u3790/Magnum_XL_with_measurements.jpg" width="248" height="282" alt="Magnum_XL_with_measurements.jpg" />As much as we complain about hip-hop and rap staying mostly "unconscious" about reproductive-justice issues (the only cut to this day discussing pro-choice options is Digable Planets' "Femme Fetale"—and that came out 15 years ago), <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/magnum_condoms_in_rap_lyrics_a.html">artists have spat about prophylactic use, specifically Trojan Magnums</a>. </p>
<p>All that free advertising—or "unsolicited lift," as the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/business/media/28adco.html?scp=1&amp;sq=condom&amp;st=cse"><em>New York Times</em> calls it </a>—generates some brand loyalty among black people, Trojan reports: "Internal research [sic] indicates they account for 22 percent of all condom purchases but 40 percent of Magnum purchases." Trojan also claims 75 percent of the condom market. </p>
<p>Now, Ludacris is doing his part to spread more of the large latex love by teaming up with the company for its very first ad campaign, a contest where people can create their own paeans to the brand. The winner gets $5,000 and a trip to the hip-hop festival Birthday Bash, to be held in Atlanta in June, and personal congrats from the rapper/actor himself. </p>
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The campaign is an great idea, considering <a href="http://www.nmac.org/index/impact-of-hiv-and-aids-among-women-and-girls-of-color">the epidemic-level stats on HIV and Black cis and trans women</a> and, as my friend <a href="http://latinosexuality.blogspot.com/">sexologist Bianca Laureano</a> said, "especially in the hip-hop community where 'I like it raw' is still prominent." </p>
<p>I am wondering, though, about the racialized sexual stereotypes undergirding and getting perpetuating by this, namely that mainstay of black sex-negative imagery, the Big Black Penis. </p>
<p>Of course, the marketers deny that's not what the contest is about, yet acknowledge that's exactly what Ludacris and his fellow rappers do [emphasis mine]: </p>
<blockquote><p><b>"While rappers usually evoke the large condoms to imply a physical attribute,</b> Mr. Long said that was not the point of the contest. "We're looking for songs that encompass the Magnum lifestyle and what it means to live large — not just the size of the condom or what it's put on but what it means to live large across the board," Mr. Long said. </p>
<p>"The Magnum brand is viewed as a positive lifestyle badge and positive symbol," Mr. Daniels said. <b>"And people are proud to show they have a Magnum condom — the large size really connotes a sense of 'above-average prowess,' let's call it."</b></p></blockquote>
<p>And let's call that "physical attribute" and "above-average prowess"—say it with me—"the mythical Mandingo Dick" that black cis men are supposed to have and know how to use magically since birth. (To some black cis men, this is what we call at Racialicious a <a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/11/02/racism-as-a-backhanded-compliment/">"positive stereotype" </a>—but, like all stereotypes, it really isn't positive after all.) It is against <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-01-24/people/cock-size-obsession">this penile yardstick that all other cis penises are judged </a>and, according to the myth, has other races of cis men wanting. Anecdote: I had an ex-friend, a non-black man of color who considers himself rather progressive, tell me that when he was a younger man in the late 80s and 90s, the "fit" of condoms didn't make practicing safer sex fun because they were "all made by Asian companies," but he and some of his male contemporaries gritted their teeth and used them because they were more afraid of dying from AIDS. Now, he said, condoms "are made better" and with "more variety" from "different companies." Decode at will…</p>
<p>I mentioned to Laureano that I heard Trojans weren't the best for penetrative sex but for sex toys due to the thickness, compared to Kimono, which also sells a larger size but is thinner and would lend itself to feeling a partner's pussy/ass/mouth better—in turn, getting some guys (and their partners) off. But Kimono condoms have "that Asian connection," Laureano answered, and people think that instantly equates to "smaller penis." Even though Kimono sells the larger size, she continued, "people think large for an Asian dude is 'norm' for US dudes. Wackness."</p>
<p>These attempts to measure up to (or live down) these racist sexual stereotypes may have some serious ramifications: <a href="http://jezebel.com/5529902/plus+sized-condoms-causing-slippage-epidemic?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+jezebel/full+(Jezebel)&amp;utm_content=Twitter">campuses reporting "lost condoms" in some cis female students</a>; some people not seeking out condoms that will meet their size needs (<a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61F00220100216">a recent study said that people fail to use condoms because of poor fit and "will remove them before sex ends"; quite a few cis men refuse to buy small- or medium-sized ones</a>); <a href="http://www.queertransmen.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=14&amp;Itemid=29&amp;limit=1&amp;limitstart=3">the safer-sex needs of trans men--as many discussions about infection prevention/reduction go—are rendered invisible.</a>) </p>
<p>This is a brilliant stroke for Ludacris by using capitalism to get out a safer-sex message…I'm just not quite down with lifting sexual clichés along with it. </p>
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-lady-is-a-tramp-the-trojan-magnum-campaign-and-the-enduring-black-male-penis-myth#commentsblack mencondomsLudacrisMagnumsexstereotypesThe Lady Is a TrampTrojanSex and SexualityThu, 13 May 2010 19:21:17 +0000Andrea Plaid3251 at http://bitchmagazine.org